various and sundry are contemplating a barter system economy

"When you see this, quote a favorite line from Buffy the Vampire Slayer in your journal."
Oh, all right. "Do you want me to answer that, or shall I just glare?"
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The glamorous life of a writer today: Writing. Waiting. Writing some more, plus some back-editing. Waiting some more on some other things. Waiting on something else. Not checking the phone to see if anyone's called on anything I'm waiting on. Not looking at the financial news, since right now it's all in play and I'll hear from here if anyone drops a pass. More back-editing and a little more research. Remember to feed the cats and do the laundry somewhere in there. Do not feed the laundry and wash the cats. Results never optimal.

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snarking the economy:

[Guilty Party]: [redacted] should be fine - among the mutual funds, I don't think they had a major Lehman's component
evilmeer: no, but they were a decent chunk in the financial sector, which gives me chills.
evilmeer: they also have a lot of government paper, so if they fail, we're all down to the barter system anyway
[Guilty Party]: I'll have to move to CT and start trapping fur
evilmeer: I think the old ladies wearing 'em might object...
[Guilty Party]: they've lived long lives already...
evilmeer: the only problem will be getting the stink of stale Chanel #5 out of the fur.
[Guilty Party]: hmmmm. true.
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meanwhile, some more of the Burgundy trip photos have been posted. I'm not sure how exciting they might be to people not me, but....
(more should be up in the next week)

a call for help

In her journal, cmpriest is talking about the situation in Texas. Having survived the storm itself, the aftermath is doing even more damage.

Via CNN: The Houston Food Bank is “utterly overwhelmed with people asking for help,” its president, Brian Greene, said Tuesday. The food bank needs 500,000 pounds of food a day for the next six weeks to satisfy the “staggering” needs of Texans who have no food or water after the storm, he said.

“People don’t grasp just how many people live here,” said Greene, who was executive director of New Orleans’ Food Bank when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005. He lost his home in Katrina, and lived at the New Orleans food bank for weeks using a garden hose as a shower. Most of the Houston food bank’s volunteers’ homes were damaged and they don’t have power.

“It’s a very similar situation that I saw following Katrina: when the caregivers themselves [are] victims, it just becomes difficult on a far larger scale than you would think,” he said.

She has a list o' links where you can help out, including food banks, and the local ASPCA. What, you were going to invest that $10 in the stock market? Put it to a better use.


meanwhile, from MSNBC: "Alaska's investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power, a potentially damaging distraction for John McCain's presidential campaign, ran into intensified resistance Tuesday when the attorney general said state employees would refuse to honor subpoenas in the case."

Because being a Republican, apparently, means you don't have to answer to the law. Cheeney did it, Palin's doing it...

Does that mean Republican=Anarchist? It would certainly explain the "fkcu you" attitude they seem to be cultivating...